EditorialClaude de France, Duchess of Brittany, first wife to King Francis I of France, 1499-1517. She wears a costume composed of two robes on top of each other, the skirts supported by a huge vertugadin or farthingale. Drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massar...
EditorialFinding the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul, ca. 1647?51, Etching, sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/16 in. (30 x 20.5 cm), Prints, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609?1664 Mantua), Castiglione is regarded as one of the most innovati...
EditorialSatyr family walking towards the left with two goats and a basket of grapes, ca. 1657, Etching; second state of three (Massar), Plate: 8 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (22.5 x 22.5 cm), Prints, Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610?1664 Florence).
EditorialDagobert I, King of Austrasia, all the Franks, Neustria and Burgundy, c.603-639. He wears a crown, full cape over a tunic, shoes. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massar...